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tishurak56302587
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December 5, 2019
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Mask Border creates Annoying White Lines

  • December 5, 2019
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Whenever I create a mask in After Effects, it generates a thin white line where my mask border occured in preview. It also shows up in the renders. This is at full size render. How do I remove this line? 

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    Correct answer Rômulo33390114rb1a

    It worked for me! Thank you!

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    tishurak56302587Author
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    December 6, 2019

    Solved it! 

    The issue is that including the mask in the same layer as the difference matte was causing too many clashing calculations. The solution is to duplicate the layer that needs masking, apply difference matte to one and all other masks to the other. 
    Layer it so that the difference matte is above the masks and using the Track Matte on the masking layer, apply it as an Alpha Matte. 

      dibfibo
      dibfibo
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      May 10, 2021

      Hi @tishurak56302587 ,
      can you share your setting(screenshots) of your Composition Panel?
      I have same issue with a vector mask.

      Thank you!

      Kyle Hamrick
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      Kyle HamrickCommunity Expert
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      December 5, 2019

      Try adding the effect "Simple Choker," set to 1 pixel. Should clean this right up.

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        Rômulo33390114rb1aCorrect answer
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        May 9, 2024

        It worked for me! Thank you!

          Mylenium
          Mylenium
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          December 5, 2019

          Without anyy information about the actual source files nobody can tell you much, but from personal experience - and you're not going to like the answer - your files are not prepared correctly. The black likely isn't actually black but rather a very dark grey and thus not 100% transparent. Happens all the time when you're not careful in photoshop. So the answer to your problem probably is to go back to PS and correct the issue rather than anything wrong with AE.

           

          Mylenium

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          tishurak56302587Author
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          December 6, 2019

          The source files are JPEGs which are just compressed from the RAW images. This attached image is a mask generated from a difference matte. Those white lines comes from further refining the mask generated by the difference matte. This is all created from 2 layers. The one screen capped below. And a clean plate. 

          It's an aliasing error caused by premultiplication and I genuinely have no clue how to get rid of it as I'm trying to render out the mask image sequence. So these mask border lines are showing up in my image sequence renders. 

           
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          tishurak56302587Author
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          December 5, 2019

          Seeing as I have a large sequence of images. Painting the problem is not a solution. If I recall correctly, it has something to do with premultiply mattes?

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